The worst Roleplaying game ever!!!

[Kanegrundar]

Here are some of the worst games IMO:

Ghostbusters: I bought this thinking it would be fun...Not fun and they made you do all the bloody work!!!

Anything Palladium: I love the Rifts setting, I think it's great, but the rules are an uneven mish-mash so horribly thrown together that it's unplayable. I think I know why Kevin Siembieda doesn't want D20 conversions of his game to come out: He'll finally have proof how horrible he is at game design!

Rolemaster: I play games to have fun, not get a crash course in quantam physics...

Anything by West End Games: The D6 system was playable but boring. I never understood what would make anyone want to play anything but a Jedi in their horrible Star Wars rendidtion (other than roleplaying and the chance to play second fiddle to a Jedi every game). The WEG SW books were pretty though, gotta give them that.

Kane

 

[Capellan]

Re: Oh my God, what did I almost just see...?

I didn't know what they were, so naturally, I didn't listen and went looking for them on Google.

Anyone reading this, heed maddman75's advice: do not look for them.

On the other hand, you must all look at the Eye of Argon, if you haven't seen it before. Priceless:

http://www.pale.org/personal/eye.html

 

[Tewligan]

Re: Oh my God, what did I almost just see...?

Anyone reading this, heed maddman75's advice: do not look for them. Thankfully, my visual focus was elsewhere on my screen when "tubgirl" came up, so I'm not entirely certain what I almost saw, but I know I never want to go back there again.

Heh, that reminds me. My circle of friends and I are in the deliciously childish habit of exclaiming "That's what SHE said!" whenever someone says anything that could be even vaguely interpreted as something sexual. After this had been blurted out several times in a relatively short time, someone said, "Man, whoever SHE is, she's a filthy young lady!" (Well, the actual response was a bit more vulgar than that, but you get the idea.) Anyway, once we saw Tubgirl, it was unanimously decided that the mysterious "she" is, in fact, Tubgirl.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Re: Star Frontiers

I would say that star frontiers is the worst game ever, but I have never played F A T A L.

...?

Man, I guess this one of those "agree to disagree" situations, but my memories of Star Frontiers are uniformly good. The only complaint I everhad about the game was "no Spaceship rules"...til they produced some!

 

[Larry Fitz]

I still hate Amber....




Hate.





Really......



Though Fatal looks really bad.... still, hate Amber... Hate hate hate.

 

[haiiro]

I know there are at least two 2nd hand dealers at GenCon. IIRC one is Wizard's Attic or something like that. Can't even remember the other one.

Crazy Egor's is the other one. Despite having a large booth and a fairly large selection, I've never found what I wanted there at a price I was willing to pay. I've never tried the auction, but I don't think the dealer's room is the best place to find used games (I generally use my FLGS, eBay or rec.games.frp.marketplace).

 

[drnuncheon]

Re: Re: Oh my God, what did I almost just see...?

On the other hand, you must all look at the Eye of Argon, if you haven't seen it before. Priceless:

http://www.pale.org/personal/eye.html

The Eye of Argon drinking game:

Participant #1 begins to read the story aloud. Anyone who laughs must drink. If the reader laughs, pauses in confusion, has their brain shut down from sheer 'what the hell?!'-itude, they drink and pass the story clockwise.

Do not do shots if you value your liver.

J

 

[KChagga]

I wish I knew what the link was, but someone did a Eye of Argon parody Mystery Science Theatre 3000 style. If you can find it, it is freakin hilarious and actually makes the story amusing.

Why do people hate palladium so bad? The combat system is 2e D&D plus an additional roll to stop an attack via dodge or parry. The skills are a percentage roll. What is so bad about that.
I'll agree that MDC vs SDC is wonky, but if you just realize that unless you are MDC powered and resistant you get squished everything goes fine.
Just accept your inner munchkin when playing rifts youll do fine. If you don't want munchkin then play a different palladium game. One that isn't set in a MDC universe.
I've never understood all the hate for palladium on these boards.

Bad roleplaying game vote goes to FATAL ugh
That one really stinks.

Anyone ever see HOL (Human Occupied Landfill). The game if you try to play it is a pile of crap, but it is laugh out loud funny if read as a parody of roleplaying games, which it is. Heck you couldn't even create a character until they came out with the second book.

 

[Greatwyrm]

Crazy Egor's is the other one.

I think Crazy Egor may have been the one I was thinking of in the first place.

 

[Walter_J]

Worst game I ever played (actually GM'd) was the edition of gama world that used the color coded success/failure/action table (I don't remember what it was actually called.)

We played GW quite a bit. We even started developing in-house rules for character advancement, etc... Then I spotted the new (at the time) edition that had rules for characters going up in levels, skills, etc... Couldn't wait to get a game together. Everybody rolled up first level characters, hit their first encounter, and nobody, including the opposition, could do anything. "I do this" roll, fail. "The bad guy does this" roll, fail. "I'll try this" roll, fail. I think we went at it for an hour before giving up.

KABAL, got it, read it, and it is still sitting in a box somewhere in my attic. Gets my vote for poorest written RPG ever.

Powers and Perils. Loved the character generation system (provided you had a weekend or three to make a character), but, outside of combat and spellcaster, what do you do? I mean, you have all those skills, with skill levels, but how do they work? I know there was a chart in the back of Book I, but after staring at it for years, I'm still not sure how the heck things work. I know Rolemaster static maneuvers were bad (and I played RM for years) but, geeze, at least the GM could figure something out.

Lords of Creation. I've no idea what to say about that game. It exits and we tried to play it once or twice. 'nuff said.